America: The Cremator

Su Long's gaze pierced through the layers of mist, and he saw that this so-called inner world space was not a monolithic entity.

Tiny cracks, like spiderwebs, constantly appear in the space, but these cracks are so few that they are quickly squeezed and closed by the surrounding spatial pressure as soon as they appear, and cannot be expanded into channels.

"There's no road..." Su Long frowned.

Just then, out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of the antique lantern at Elena's waist.

The flame of its wick flickered at a fixed frequency. At the moment when the light was at its brightest, a wisp of tenacious spiritual power would spread out, like a stone thrown into a lake, creating a crack in the surrounding space that was much longer and deeper than a natural fissure!

Su Long's pupils suddenly contracted.

It turns out that this lamp is not only used for lighting and repelling monsters, but it also has a certain "boundary-breaking" attribute!

Unfortunately, although the rift is long, it appears too infrequently. As soon as it appears, it is repaired by the surrounding spatial structure, and it is not enough to form a stable exit.

"Frequency...density..." Su Long's thoughts raced, trying to find a way out of this fleeting clue.

However, the battlefield never gives people time to think.

A cunning ghoul bypassed Elena's attack and roared as it pounced from Suron's side, its sharp fangs aimed at his right arm and bit down hard!

"Watch out!" Elena cried out in alarm, swinging her greatsword back, but she was already a beat too late.

"Snap!"

A sharp pain shot through him, and Su Long frowned, immediately mobilizing the power of the entry.

[Ode to Flesh and Blood] Activated!

The muscle fibers in the right arm tightened and hardened in an instant in a way that defied physiological structure. The ghoul was horrified to find that its teeth were stuck in steel plates, unable to be pulled out or bit down.

Then, Su Long precisely controlled the blood flow near the wound to slow it down, locking the corpse poison tightly to the skin.

He drew a double-edged dagger from his waist with his left hand, and a wisp of golden primordial fire instantly covered the blade, slashing fiercely at the ghoul's head with immense force.

"Sizzle—"

With a crisp crack, the ghoul's head was severed in two, and its entire body collapsed helplessly to the ground. Golden flames instantly spread across its body, burning it to ashes.

"How are you?" Elena forced back the surrounding monsters with her sword and rushed to his side. When she saw the two tooth holes on Su Long's arm that were still bleeding black blood, her face turned deathly pale.

"Minor injury."

Su Long shook his head, and with a thought, the muscles in his arm twitched again. A stream of dark red, rotten blood was forcibly squeezed out of the wound and dripped to the ground, making a "sizzling" corrosive sound. The two wounds began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

His gaze fell on his dagger, whose flames were still burning.

The golden primordial fire burned, and under the Eye of Truth, the space around the flames was also burned with fine cracks.

Unlike the lantern, the primordial fire creates numerous cracks, densely packed together, but each one is very short and disappears as soon as it appears.

A bold idea popped into his mind.

The power of a lantern can create a long, single crack.

The power of the primordial fire can create short, dense cracks.

What if we combined the two?

Su Long suddenly looked up, staring intently at her: "Elena, turn off your light."

Elena's eyes widened instantly, almost thinking she was hallucinating. She instinctively retorted, "Are you crazy? This lamp can conceal our presence. Once it goes out, we'll be targeted by something far more powerful!"

"Listen to me! I won't joke with our lives!" Su Long's tone left no room for argument.

Looking at his resolute expression, Elena gritted her teeth and chose to believe him: "Okay."

She turned on the switch of the lantern, and the only light of protection in the mist was instantly extinguished.

The world was plunged into absolute darkness.

The roars around them instantly grew several times louder, and countless malevolent auras surged in like a tidal wave, making it suffocating.

Without wasting any time, Su Long immediately stretched out his left hand, which was covered by the primordial fire, and grabbed the lantern in Elena's hand, roughly pressing the golden flame onto the wick!

"laugh--!!!"

The moment the golden flame touched the wick, the entire lantern shuddered and emitted a deep, resonant hum.

Suddenly, a blazing golden flame, filled with holiness and majesty, lit up inside the originally dim lampshade!

Elena stared in shock at the lantern in her hand; she could feel that this sacred object had never been so powerful.

Under the True Eye of Suron, the world is changing even more dramatically!

The lantern's properties were perfectly combined with the flame's properties. The moment the golden light spread outward, hundreds of long, dense, and jagged terrifying cracks instantly appeared on the surrounding space walls!

The entire inner world began to tremble violently, groaning under the strain.

It worked!

"Elena, channel all your power into the lantern's brightness!" Su Long roared, throwing his remaining strength recklessly into condensing the flame.

"good!"

Elena held back no longer and poured all her power into the lantern.

"Buzz—Boom!!!"

A golden halo swept out, shattering the spatial structure wherever it passed!

Countless cracks intertwined, and the entire world began to collapse, presenting a bizarre and apocalyptic scene.

Su Long's vision swept rapidly across the shattered space, quickly locking onto the area with the densest and most broken cracks.

He reached out his hand to Elena.

"Grenade!"

Just then, an extremely eerie and desolate siren sounded out from the depths of the thick fog without warning.

"Waaah...waaah..."

The sound was unlike any police siren in reality; it seemed to resonate directly in the depths of one's soul, carrying an indescribable antiquity and malice.

Elena's body stiffened abruptly, her eyes momentarily glazed over, and the hand that was handing out the grenade trembled violently, causing the delicate silver grenade to slip from her grasp and fall to the ground!

"Fuck!"

Su Long immediately controlled the rush of blood to his head, and at the same time unscrewed the lid of Raphael's jug and took a big gulp of wine, which dispelled the dizziness in his mind and maintained his mental clarity.

He leaned forward abruptly, swiftly catching the grenade in mid-air. Without hesitation, he pulled the safety pin and, with all his might, hurled the grenade at the area with the densest cracks and the most unstable space in the distance.

The grenade traced a graceful parabola through the air before landing precisely in the target area.

"boom--!!!"

With a muffled explosion, a shockwave mixed with silver powder spread out.

Several ghouls that were close by were instantly blasted into dust, without even being able to let out a scream.

The already fragile space finally collapsed completely under the shockwave of the silver powder grenade.

A void about two meters in diameter appeared at the site of the explosion. It had no color and no light, and it just appeared there abruptly, like a piece torn from a painting, constantly swallowing the distorted light around it.

"Go! Go quickly!"

Su Long grabbed Elena, who was still in a daze, and dragged her toward the void.

"Waaaaah!!!"

The terrifying siren sounded again, this time closer and clearer than before, even carrying a hint of anger.

The ground was shaking, as if some enormous creature was striding closer.

Su Long shuddered and, just as he was about to leap into the void, instinctively looked back.

In the distant twilight, amidst the swirling fog, a huge and distorted silhouette slowly emerged.

It was a tall, thin figure, with disproportionately long limbs supporting an equally long torso.

What's most chilling is its head.

That wasn't a head at all—at the top of its neck, which was as long as a telephone pole, two huge, rusty metal sirens protruded from either side, their horns pointing directly in their direction, like two malevolent eyes staring at their prey.